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In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects them with important elements of the Rabbinic interpretive tradition. Hers is the first comprehensive treatment of the undeniable, and undeniably significant, influence of Jewish religious thought on contemporary literary criticism. Dr. Handelman shows how they provide a crucial link among several of the most influential modern theories of textual interpretation, from Freud to the Deconstructionist School of Lacan and Derrida, as well as current literary theorists who revive Rabbinic hermeneutics, such as Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman.

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  1. cover
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  1. front matter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9vii-viii
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  1. Figures
  2. p. ix
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Methodological Preface
  2. pp. xiii-xviii
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  1. Note to the Reader
  2. pp. xix-xxi
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  1. I. Historical Background: The Interpretive Agon of Greek, Jew, and Christian
  1. 2. Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text The Bible and the Greeks The Text The Development of the Oral Law
  2. pp. 27-50
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  1. The Slayers of Moses: Freud, Lacan, Denida, Bloom and the Dark Side of Displacement
  1. Prologue: The Book of Books and the Book of Nature
  2. pp. 123-128
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  1. 5. Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob Undoing Moses Heretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing Origins Freud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden Gaps The Hybrid Science
  2. pp. 129-152
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  1. 6. The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name
  2. pp. 153-162
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  1. 7. Reb Denida's Scripture Derrida vs. Lacan The Curtained Torah To Love the Torah More than God
  2. pp. 163-178
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  1. Appendix to Chapter 3: Rabbi Ishmael's Rules
  2. pp. 225-228
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 229-230
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 231-250
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 251-262
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 263-267
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